“Apple’s iPhone” secured a place in the Top 10 News Stories at the time well before it was even launched. It was the reality for the first time that Lycos revealed recently with its Top 10 News stories of 2007.Lycos has compiled a whole search report for the year 2007 and released last week.
According to the released search report by Lycos, in a rare appearance for a technology event, the “Debut of the iPhone” captured the fifth-place spot in the news category. The phone was beaten by the number of searches on the execution of Sadaam Hussein, which finished first, and, in order, by the Iran conflict, the Pakistan conflict, and global warming.
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A HTML/CSS bug in MySpace has been exploited and a few stars’ high-traffic profiles, including Alicia Keys’, has been affected by it. What the hack does is that it creates a link that can be moved anywhere on the profile and covers a substantial amount of space.
When a person clicks on the link, he or she is brought to a page which will prompt the user to install a codec that will allow them to hear music from the artiste. It’s a clever trick because it looks authentic and there is a good chance the user will think it’s some sort of special link to a pre-released song or video of some sort, which will increase the chances that they will download the codec (which is a virus) into their computers.
People with computers that have not applied the latest security vulnerability patch will get infected even more easily because the malware will download in the background, oblivious to the user. Since even legal plugins online get the prompt, those who have the update may still fall for the trick as it everything will seem like its normal.
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